Produced by Rudy Ketterer, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net GIDEON'S BAND BOOKS BY GEORGE W. CABLE Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS #Gideon's Band.# Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Posson Jone' and Pere Raphael.# Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Kincaid's Battery.# Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Bylow Hill.# Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.25 #The Cavalier.# Illustrated _net_ $1.35 #John March, Southerner.# 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Bonaventure.# 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Dr. Sevier.# 12mo _net_ $1.35 #The Grandissimes.# 12mo _net_ $1.35 The Same. Illustrated. Crown 8vo _net_ $2.50 #Old Creole Days.# 12mo _net_ $1.35 The Same. Illustrated. Crown 8vo _net_ $2.50 #Strange True Stories of Louisiana.# Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.35 #Strong Hearts.# 12mo _net_ $1.25 #The Creoles of Louisiana.# Illustrated. Square 12mo _net_ $2.50 #The Silent South.# 12mo _net_ $1.00 #The Negro Question.# 12mo _net_ $ .75 #Madame Delphine.# _net_ $ .75 #The Cable Story Book.# [_Scribner Series of School Reading._] Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $ .50 [Illustration: Ramsey [_Page 80_]] GIDEON'S BAND A TALE OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY GEORGE W. CABLE ILLUSTRATED BY F. C. YOHN NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1914 Copyright, 1914, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published September, 1914 TO EVA CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Steamboat Levee 1 II. "The Votaress" 5 III. Certain Passengers 9 IV. The First Two Miles 13 V. Ramsey Hayle 17 VI. Hayles's Twins 25 VII. Supper 31 VIII. Questions 37